The 6 Types of People Selling Stuff on Craigslist [CHART]
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Is "This guy" John Lithgow?
ReplyWhat happens if the President of Nigeria asks me for money?
ReplyThe "Avoid Scams!" lines are freaking brilliant.....
ReplyYou forgot the mantra of EVERY ad for a reasonably-priced car or motorcycle..."RAN WHEN PARKED"
ReplyI would like *so much* to apply for a job online that doesn't send me back an autoresponse filled with drivel about downloading a toolbar or taking a Wal-Mart gift card survey first. I think at least 90 percent of the jobs I apply to are spam and the other 10 percent I'm not actually qualified for.
ReplyHaha, "This is a picture of it it literally off-roading" and it's a picture of the Bronco parked on a curb. Why would you ever want to get rid of this incredible vehicle (and think we automatically know your phone number), MR. Johnson?
Replyyou forgot the people who keep asking questions about something you are selling that were already answered in the ad because they don't bother to read it first. Also, the mexicans who speak 3 words of english and you try to explain to them for 4 hours that you are only selling this one part off your truck, not parting the entire truck out, yet they keep insisting on giving you 15 bucks for the seats and fenders (when all I was selling was the stock tail lights)... lastly, there's the morons who have no concept of haggling and basically hack your already fair price in half or their first offer is "free?" or "10 bucks?" for your $800 stereo system that is 3 months old and you are only selling it to buy food for the month since you lost your job. I believe murder is justified in this scenario.
ReplySelling a 70's build car made of armoires.
ReplyThat is so not a '91 Bronco.
ReplyI've seriously never once in my life even looked at craigslist. All I know is that in my head, from everything I hear about it, it's pretty in the same category as "a brothel"(not the classy kind either), "the ghetto after midnight", and "a needle ridden back alley next to a crackhouse" as places that I'd go to try to find legitimate, non-shady deals that won't result in possible sexual assault and/or receiving merchandise severely infected with some sort of foreign, possibly sexually transmitted disease. I'd also be worried at all times about the object I puchased having been inside someone's ass, even though that's probably where the diseases inevitably infecting every item on craigslist came from anyways.
ReplyI was going to put "a dumpster" up there in the same category too, but that's a lie, at least when you go to a dumpster there's not all too high a chance you'll get stabbed with a drug filled syringe and wake up hours later with a bleeding rectum. At least not around here anyways.
Craig's list is totally fine if you're not an idiot and can spot a scam. I got my last several apartments off CL including when I moved from Chicago to LA. Still in the same place 8 months later. I also sold a bunch of stuff when I moved on CL
Up here in Canada we use kijiji (which is now google classifieds in the US). But it's the same deal. However, the one thing I will use it for is finding apartments. There really isn't anywhere else to look for apartments online, and being a student, I need to find a new one every year. I've had pretty good luck so far, but then again, I don't bother with typical student places. For example, last year I rented a riverfront condo right in the middle of downtown.
I'd add: anyone posting a "writing contest" with the only compensation for "winners" (aka anyone who responds) being "publication" as in being printed in the poster's self-pub book which, by the way, you have to buy copies of and sell yourself. No royalties, not even a free copy of said publication. Often it's actually a scheme some self-pub uses to fill out an "anthology" in order to publish his own sad, s****y work.
Reply"Looking for a friendly Dominican or Brazilian girl to work as escort"
ReplyTranslation: Tan girl with a big ass, you can figure out the rest.
Almost got me there, CL.
CL job listing? That isn't just how they are on CL. That PHP Guru listing reads like just about every actual job listing I've ever encountered. HR people who write tech job listings never seem to know wth they're talking about. Know 10 languages? Every OS ever made? How to fix submarines? Want to debug report code, make websites, iPhone apps, network servers, and fix printers? All for 25k a year and no benefits? Welcome to the tech world!
Replyin my experience HR people never know anything about any positions. They are basically the grown up version of the classroom tattletale
Marmots are cute id watch a guys marmot...or maybe thats a thinly veiled porno invite
ReplyMarmot? Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
In Fairbanks, AK, where my mother lives, they actually have covered drop-off sites all over the city for stuff that is still in reasonably good shape, people drop off everything from clothes to furniture to electronics and the city comes through every week or two and disposes of all the stuff nobody took.
ReplyI don't know if it would be as popular here in the lower-48, but in Alaska people don't typically have the same reservations about that kinda stuff. When it's -48°F you kinda don't give much of a s**t whether you're wearing a used coat LOL
They're called "transfer sites", and yeah, I've found good stuff there. brand-new clothes, furniture, etc. Yeah, we're a military city and when military folks are re-assigned to the lower 48 they tend to not want to move all their stuff.
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ReplyHow about people "selling" stuff, but "(choose one: I travel a lot / I'm in Canada at the moment) and can't make the sale in person, but if you send me the money, I'll leave the merchandise with DropShop"?
Reply"$50 reading fee?" Screw that; if anybody asks for a reading fee, they're scamming you.
ReplyREALLY??? I had no clue...
But the other ads, they're legit, right...?
I've found some great things in those free rubbish piles people advertise: a couple of plates, two festive Coca Cola cups, a rusty bread knife, a slightly scratched copy of the Sims Deluxe Edition, a juice jug. Granted, I've also found several haunted doll heads and suspiciously-stained office chairs, but that's the price you pay for acquiring free things.
ReplyPretty sure you're just some turpentine away from making some Nuka Grenades.
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